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Re: Creating a visual Map of a network?

  • From: Colin Alston
  • Date: Tue Sep 16 06:41:46 2008

[email protected] wrote:
> I am being tasked to map a network.  In the past I have used nmap to find the systems on the local LAN and remote LANs (same enterprise).
> 
> This time I want to create a visual map of the LAN.  With cheops, I reasonably good results but cannot be documented for managers with certainty. What are some good tools now that will create visual maps of the networks?
> 
> What is the best way to map a network when ICMP echo has been turned off?
> 

I've had success using Scapy (http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/) and
tying it into Graphviz. It can do TCP traces too and has all sorts of
built in visualisation options.

And look at the bottom here http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/demo.html